The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Brandis, Buford

doi: 10.2307/1884655pmid: N/A

Summary I. The legal basis for price control, 543. — II. Administration: private business, 545; costs, 546; demand, 547; foreign trade, 548; policy changes, 550; price interrelations, 552. — III. Price movements: wholesale prices, 553; causal factors, 555. — IV. Wages, 555. — V. Wage policy, 560. — VI. Wages and prices, 562. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1942–1943, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Hirschman, Albert, O.

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Summary Method of measurement: division of total trade into three categories, 566; possible misinterpretation of the figures, 572. — Main result of the calculations: the data, 573; the traditional type of exchange not dominant, 576; comparison with findings of the Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 577. — Analysis of the statistics for groups of countries, 579. — Commodity structure of British foreign trade since 1854, 588. — Historical importance of the traditional view of the commodity structure of world trade, 591. 1 " The present article forms part of a larger work on the relation between national power and international trade, to be published by the University of California Press. I am indebted to Professor J. B. Condliffe for stimulating my interest in the subject, to Professor Eugene Staley for various helpful suggestions, and to Mr. F. M. Ricci for assistance in the calculations. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1942–1943, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Gold, Norman Leon; Enlow, Maxine

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Summary Introduction: the importance of consumers' price elasticities and food habits, 596. — Income elasticity and price elasticity, 599. — Demand curves from market data, 604. — New data on low income demand curves: sources, 606; advantages and disadvantages, 608 — The findings: butter, 612; eggs, 615; pork, 616; lard, 618; oranges, 619; grapefruit, 621; apples, 623; prunes, 623; potatoes, 623; white flour, 625; dry beans, 625; rice, 627; comparisons, 627. — Conclusions, 629. 1 The writers wish to acknowledge the assistance of John D. Black, John Lintner, and Fred V. Waugh, who made a number of helpful criticisms of the earlier draft. Messrs. Hugh V. Robinson, Guy Black, and Don Miller assisted in the preparation of the graphic analyses and the charts. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1942–1943, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Brown, E. Cary; Patterson, Gardner

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Summary The First World War: Revenue Act of 1916, 630; Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, 631; criteria used by the Government, 632; extent of amortization under this law, 634; the question of incentives, 634. — The Second World War: Second Revenue Act of 1940, 636; administration of this law, 637; changes in the law in 1942, 639. — Accelerated depreciation as an incentive to plant expansion, 641. — Conclusions, 645. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1942–1943, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Woolley, Herbert B.

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Lindblom, Charles E.

doi: 10.2307/1884660pmid: N/A

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doi: 10.1093/qje/57.4.659pmid: N/A

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